This e-book bargains a brand new interpretation of a serious bankruptcy within the historical past of the Zionist-Palestine clash and the British Empire within the heart East. It contends that the Balfour statement was once one of the British propaganda rules throughout the global warfare I that have been underpinned through misconceived notions of ethnicity, ethnic strength and nationalism.

Israelis and Palestinians were stuck in what turns out a eternally conflict with regimen terror within the promised land for greater than a hundred years. This ebook is the 1st to collect observation and anguished own insights from humans on either side of the conflict. Readers get a private glance at―and a clearer, extra nuanced knowing of―the mental trauma that's universal for males, girls and youngsters there.

At the eve of the Six-Day battle in 1967, Israel was once nineteen years outdated and as a lot a teen because the regular nineteen-year-old individual. problems with identification and transition have been the controversy between Israeli intellectuals, together with the author Nissim Rejwan. used to be Israel a Jewish country or a democratic kingdom? And, so much frustratingly, who was once a Jew?

From the past due 19th century onward, women and men during the heart East mentioned, debated, and negotiated the jobs of younger women and girls in generating sleek international locations. In Palestine, ladies' schooling used to be pivotal to discussions approximately motherhood. Their schooling was once visible as having the capability to rework the relations in order that it may well meet either glossy and nationalist expectancies.

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